Kev is
an Australian amateur radio operator, or "ham", who set out to study
how earth's atmospheric and weather conditions affected his radio signal. He
became immersed in a detailed investigation of the solar cycle, sunspots,
solar flares, interplanetary magnetic flux, solar wind, and more. One of the
first things he noticed is that the graphs of solar activity show a clear
incline over the last few hundred years since the records began (see also
diagrams at Beyond 2012 item 3). This means
that solar activity has been steadily increasing for a long time. When he
noticed that the Earth's geomagnetic activity was also increasing, along with
earthquake activity, he contacted government agencies, who denied any increases
and said that any apparent increases were due to more advanced instrumentation
over the years. Kev re-checked and found that the official explanation did not
explain the data. For example, in the case of earthquakes, he only counted major
quakes, and the tally of these would not be affected by new equipment.

Next, Kev started
corresponding with a Malaysian UFOlogist called Ahmad
Jamaludin, who had discovered a pattern to UFO sightings that fitted in with
the solar cycle. Jamaludin, (who has a "source
x" theory to explain it), provided maps of UFO sightings that followed
Earth's tectonic plate junctions. Kev went on to examine reports of alien
abductions and cattle mutilation. He came to the conclusion that the details
show that, in the case of humans, the glandular examinations by the abductors,
plus sampling of skin, blood, sperm, ova, and hair, is exactly the kind of
tissue sampling that would be needed to show effects of increased radiation. In the
case of animal mutilation, there is even more evidence of an interest by the
perpetrators, in
checking on an increase in carbon 14 from solar radiation. A rise in carbon
14 may, says Kev, be connected to the rise in cancer over the past
century.

Kev concludes that, in
July-August 2011, there is a possible coincidence of 4 factors that could, if
they occur at the same time, endanger the Earth. These are the 4 factors:

1. The height of summer in the
Northern hemisphere in June 2011 (summer solstice is June 21st), when the
Earth's magnetic North pole is closest to the Sun.

2. There will be three
eclipses that occur in June 2011, causing geomagnetic effects (NB earthquake in
Turkey following the eclipse in August 1999).

3. The solar maximum is due at
this time, when the sun's magnetic field reverses (every 11 years on average).

4.
The possible peak of
a solar mega-cycle, or long-term sunspot cycle indicated by the incline in
graphs of solar activity ( see
herefor more on solar mega-cycle, and
here ).

Kev says
the result of these 4 factors coinciding will cause
the Earth's magnetic field to collapse and reverse, and the
"resulting earthquake and volcano activity bringing about the end of our
civilisation by the end of 2012". A new ice-age would probably follow, due
to a global temperature drop as volcanic ash cuts out sunlight.

However, the last solar polar reversal
cycle (11-year sunspot cycle) was a year later than expected, lasting 11 years,
10 months, and reversing in February 2001 (see Whats
New item 18). That brings the next expected peak to February 2012, but it is
variable - between 8 & 14 year periods have been recorded in the past. So,
if the current cycle is a little less than 11 years, we could be in big trouble,
according to Kev's theory.

This, says Kev, explains why the
goverments have been hushing up the alien presence - because they're here to
study the effects of a solar mega-max; an event (possibly in combination with
the other factors), that only occurs, says Kev, every 65 million years, & wiped out the
dinosaurs last time.

Kev brings up some very interesting
points in the book, and it is well illustrated with graphs showing correlations
between solar, geomagnetic, and earthquake increases, UFO & tectonic plate
coincidences, plus bovine excision pics. Click here to go to Kev's eBook:

In May 1998, a crop
formation appeared near West Kennett Long Barrow, opposite Silbury Hill, Avebury,
Wiltshire, UK. It became known as the Beltane Wheel. Photographer Steve
Alexander dates its discovery as 5th May 1998 (Lucy Pringle dates it at 4th
May). There was soon a rumour circulating that the crop glyph was the same as
the Mayan Sun glyph. Since the Mayan Sun glyph is called Ahau, and doesn't look
like the crop formation, I wondered where the information came from. Now I have
found out - Aluna Joy Yaxk'in, a new-age speaker and author, who works with the
Mayan calendar (the Arguelles version). Aluna, (whose website is called Center
of the Sun), discovered the formation on May 4th 1998 while at the 1998
Mayan Dreamtime Festival in Glastonbury. She predicted finding a "sun"
crop circle shortly before seeing it, and it connects to the Mayan calendar
since there are "33 solar petals" on the formation, and the Mayan
Tzolk'in uses a combination of 13 numbers and 20 day signs, which she calls
"sun glyphs". Read the whole story at Crop
Circles and Mayan Time .

55. Laurence
Lucas Part 3: The Mayan Message of 2012?

Laurence Lucas presents the third part of a 5-part
overview to the forthcoming end of history.

Looking at the Popul Vuh, the Mayans today, the shamanic
atmosphere, Laurence's trip to Mexico/Guatemela and Mayan consciousness and the
interconnectedness of the tribe.

56. More on Nostradamus& 2012 31/5/2002

Continuing on from last month's piece on Nostradamus
(see Whats New item 52), there is a site
called
AN ANCIENT PROPHECY
REVEALED FOR 1999 - 2012 (or its duplicate site, called THE NEW WORLD
ORDER AND ANTICHRIST: THE YEARS 2002-2012 ) which makes the outrageous claim
that Prince William is the "Once-and-Future King", or King Arthur, who
is also the Great Beast of Revelation, (who "was and is not and is to
come") and the Third Antichrist of Nostradamus' prophecies. However
preposterous this sounds, if you spend some time here, you could end up feeling
more than a little paranoid. The best thing is to wait until Summer solstice
2002 - that's only 3 weeks away from when this was posted, because there's a
definite prediction that Prince William will be crowned king of England on that
day (oh yes, and the royal family will be wiped out by a meteor strike just
beforehand). Just in case, here's the basic predictions:

Year 2002 =
Comet strike/ US destroyed/ Russia,Arabs Invade Israel (Usama Bin Laden found
dead (= Mabus)June 21 2002 = British Royal Family killed/
William-Arthur becomes the King of England2002-06 = Occultic New World Order realized/
Establishment of a False Utopia2006 = British King accepted as Messiah over
Israel-and the 7 yr Tribulation begins2009 = Antichrist conquers Jerusalem and
Temple/ Satan enters himDec 21 2012 = The Antichrist is destroyed at
Armageddon

Apparently, Led Zeppelin were in on the
whole plan & its encoded in their excellent song, Battle
of Evermore, which you can listen to, as you read the annotated
lyrics. The whole excursion was worth it for this musical interlude.

The final show in
the current series of The X-Files was shown in USA last week. Agent
Stardog contacted me to inform me of "a
heinous use of 2012 as alien threat propaganda"
in the series finale. A summary of the plot can be found by clicking HERE.
At the bottom of the page, you will find the episode called The
Truth. I have quoted the most relevant
parts below:

The
Truth At
the Mount Weather Complex at Bluemont, Virginia, a helicopter lands. Several men
in suits exit the helicopter, including Fox Mulder. The men board a bus that
takes them through a doorway into an underground complex. Inside, US Marine
Corps officers meet them, but Mulder slips away. Using an electronic key card,
he penetrates deeper and deeper into secure areas. In one room he activates a
computer console and enters a password. The screen shows the text "December
22, 2012...Date for the mobilization of alien....." ...

Mulder
ends up in jail, and following a trial, is sentenced to death by lethal
injection... it seems he discovered the ultimate secret. There is a jail-break,
and Scully & Mulder eventually arrive at an ancient Anasazi pueblo, to see
the person who had sent him the keys to the Marine Base, "The Keeper of
Truth", who turns out to be the Cigarette-Smoking Man...

...He says that Mulder now
knows the truth, which he found in the Marine base, but Mulder refuses to speak
it, even though it could save his life. Indian wise men hid in this pueblo as
their own culture was destroyed by the aliens. The pueblo contains magnetite,
which makes it safe against the aliens. Those wise men were the first “shadow
government.” The Cigarette Smoking Man wants to tell Scully his story - a
story that has terrified every President since Truman. The Mayans were so afraid
that their calendar stops on the date of the final alien invasion, December 22,
2012. Mulder saw the date at Mount Weather where our own secret government will
be hiding when the invasion happens...

...If this is the truth he has been looking
for, what else is to believe, she asks. He replies that he wants to believe that
the dead are not lost to us, and if we listen to them they can give us the power
to save ourselves. Scully says, “we believe the same thing.” Mulder moves to
the bed and they hold each other. “Maybe there’s hope,” he says as the
episode and the TV series ends.

On
the following page of the website, (click HERE),
there are a few more comments on 2012, (eg Aztec "lizard gods" were
reptilian larval forms of Greys). Future X-Files timelines are given on
this page, and feature time-travel, involving someone called Nichols (Preston
Nichols is the author of several books on the Montauk Time Travel Project - see item
24)

58. Rotational Speed of Earth's Core
May be Related to Baktun Length?
31/5/2002

The speed of the core's
independent spin is between 0.4 and 1.8 degrees a year which works out to a full
lap relative to a fixed point on the surface about every 400 years. The leading
suggestion for the cause of the independent motion is an interaction between
magnetic fields generated by fluids moving in the Earth's outer core which is
molten iron and the inner, solid crystal. The implications of differential
rotation between the core and the surface are hot topics at professional
meetings and in various physical and geophysical journals. The iron crystal in
the core is longer from north to south, but it does not exactly match Earth's
poles. As a result of the core's orientation and rotation, "magnetic
north" moves over time. The physical pole of the planet also wobbles over
time, a process called the "precession of the equinoxes."

For more information on this 1996
discovery, see this
site; (the core actually revolves faster than the crust).

The length of a baktun, (of which 13 make up the cycle
that terminates in 2012), is 144,000 days, which is 400 tuns (360-day
"years") - about 394 tropical years. Could there be a connection?
Several sites have suggested that the Mayan end-point may be connected with an
imminent magnetic pole shift (see item 32); the
site quoted above says that the 400-year differential rotation of the core
causes the magnetic poles to wander (polar wander is now known to be
accelerating). Other sites have connected it to geomagnetic reversal, and now some
scientists are saying we are due for geomagnetic reversal soon!

59. End-Date Confusion
Explained
31/5/2002

I have recently
encountered several variations on the end-date of the 13-Baktun Cycle, and
decided to investigate. Below is my analysis; probable reasons for this
confusion are numbered & the numbering system explained further below.

*John
Mini's Day of Destiny 16/8/87 = Arguelles Year 1 Reed. + 12 years = year 13
reed, minus 3 leap days. By True count, start of year 13 reed = Jan, not Aug.
& anyway, this is a presumption based on the Aztec Calendar Stone. Mini
altered one of his diagrams of the Sunstone to support his theory.

**Carl Calleman
discovered an interesting pyramidal structure to Long Count cycles, that seems
to explain all evolutionary eras, but the end-date didn't quite fit the theory,
so the conclusion is that the Maya must have got it wrong. Calleman then altered
the Long Count-to-Tzolkin correlation, which nobody else has ever disputed. The
second link shows how this is now being distorted into, "information now
being released by the Maya indicates that 2012 may not be quite right".

***"Waters
got his December 24, 2011 end-date from an early edition of Michael Coe’s
Mexico
(1962) that was in error, and subsequently corrected" JMJ. It now seems
that waters actually got it from Coe's The Maya (1966).The second link
is a fascinating twist.

****Although
Jose Arguelles is said to support the True Count end-date, several sites say
that 26 July (the Dreamspell New Year) 2013 will be the date of Galactic
Synchronisation. Some indicate that this
is actually 26th July 2012, but henceforward called 2013 by Arguelles, since it
is his "new year".

*****Sergey
Smelyakov originally based his work on Arguelles' dates, which were faulted. I
wrote to him, and he has now modified the Auric Time Scale to align with the
True Count...more on this soon!

******David
Wilcock has now re-written the theory in support of the True Count end-date,
but some people are still quoting the 2039-2040 scenario.

CONFUSION
FACTORS

1. Correlation
Constants

For decades, archaeologists and archaeo-astronomers have
known that the Mayan Long Count started 4.5 - 5.5 thousand years ago, and lasts
for 1,872,000 days. In order to find out which day in the Gregorian calendar,
(that we use today), relates to the start-date of the 13-Baktun Cycle, the
specialists have had to find a date that fits all known criteria, such as
astronomical phenomena described in surviving codices, and dates of reign of
kings. As the years have passed, more discoveries have been made, (and
astronomical software has advanced), and enabled the specialists to whittle down
the possible correlations to just a few out of the many correlations suggested
over the years. The two most popular correlations are the "True
Count", an unbroken count that is still followed today by the Maya people
of the Highlands of Guatemala, (known as the GMT, True Count or 584283 correlation to
researchers), and its main rival, the 584285, or Lounsbury correlation.

Since the Gregorian calendar has only been in existence
since Feb 24th 1582, when Pope
Gregory XIII instituted the
calendar reform, archaeologists use a "Julian Day Number" system (based on the Julian Calendar, named after Julius
Caesar who started it around 46 BC), to date the past. The
"zero-day", on which the Julian Day (JD) count started was January the 1st
in the year 4713 BC, although the JD number system was only established in the 16th century AD. Thus,
in the GMT correlation, the Julian Day (JD) 584283, as the Long Count zero-day
0.0.0.0.0 correlates to August 11th 3114 BC,
if the Gregorian calendar is worked backwards (before it actually existed). The
next most popular correlation - the Lounsbury correlation, puts the start-date
only 2 days away from that of the GMT, at August
13th 3114 BC. The 2 termination dates are thus also
2 days apart; the GMT/Thompson (True Count) ends on 21st
December 2012, and the Lounsbury ends on 23rd
December 2012.

At
Peter Meyer's site you can find a list of 15 of these
correlation constants, each named after their discoverer, and all lying between
the Bowditch correlation that starts in 3209 BC
and the Vaillant correlation that starts in 2594 BC.
The end-points were 1493 AD and
2532 AD, and the GMT and Lounsbury correlations are
roughly in the centre of this window.

2. Julian Date

Before the Gregorian calendar, there was the Julian calendar, and for every
Julian Day Number, there is a corresponding Julian date, as well as a Gregorian
date. The Gregorian date 11th August 3114 BC (JD
584283) was also the Julian date 6th September 3114 BC.
The Gregorian date 21st December 2012 (JD 2456283)
can also be expressed as the Julian day 8th December 2012.

3. Year Zero

The Gregorian calendar
refers back to a zero-point at the theoretical point that Christ was born, 25th
December, (which was the winter solstice back then), just before the year
1AD. The previous year was the year 1 BC, so there was no "year zero".
This makes calculations from BC to AD and AD to BC awkward, as calculations
involve positive-to-negative transitions & vice versa, and usually involve a
zero. Consequently, the year 3114 BC
is 5125 years before the year 2012, even though 3114 + 2012 = 5126, because the
missing year zero has been counted in the calculation, so it has to be taken
off. For this reason - to make calculations easier, astronomers started using a
different notation; the year 3114 BC
= the year -3113. An archaeologist specializing in the Maya,
Micheal Coe, published a book in 1966 - The Maya - that used the
3113 BC start-date and miscalculated a 2011 end-date. This was corrected to 3114
BC and 2012 in later editions._see *** above.

4. Julian day = Mid-day
to Mid-day

The 4th complicating
factor is the fact that Julian days start at mid-day and end at mid-day on the
following day. Thus, each JD number can refer to 2 different days. Most online
calculators give the date of the afternoon corresponding to a given JD number,
unless they supply increased accuracy with hours, minutes & seconds. -
see Maya links page for a comparison of online JD
calculators

5. Zero-day/first Day
& Zero-day/last Day Confusion

Mid-day on the long Count
zero-date 0.0.0.0.0 was day 584283 (True Count). The following day is often
called "the first day", since it is 0.0.0.0.1; and in a similar way,
the last day, 13.0.0.0.0 is actually another zero day, the day after the last
day, which is 12.19.19.17.19 , but then, since the Julian day numbers go from
mid-day to mid-day, JD 2456283, (584283 + 1,872,000) does not expire until
mid-day on 13.0.0.0.0

If the Mayans started the
zero-day at sunrise, then the 1,872,000 days expire at sunrise (in Mexico) on
13.0.0.0.0 , (True Count = 21st December 2012), but if you're counting from 0.0.0.0.1 then the expiry is on the
sunrise of 22nd December 2012.

6. Changing facts to fit
theory

7. Typos

8. Chinese whispers

9. So many dates, they
all get mixed

10. Solstice date: The
date of winter solstice varies between 21st December and 22nd December; in 2012
it will occur on 21st December, so some people who have heard the end-date
is on winter solstice 2012 have mistakenly presumed it would be on 22
December.

This includes beginning
dates getting mixed with end-dates.

10. Psychic messages
& channeling

60.
Laurence Lucas Part 4: Why Galactic?
31/5/2002

Laurence Lucas presents the fourth
part of a 5-part
overview to the forthcoming end of history.

John Major Jenkins and the alignment, the sacred calendar,
Jose Arguelles, Carl Johan Calleman.

Which correlation,.... does it matter ? A personal
experience in Mexico on 4 Ahau, and different textures of reality. A short essay written
exclusively to those 'Mayanists' familiar with the work of those above.

61. Christianity/The
Rapture and 2012
30/6/2002

Well, I had to get round
to this sooner or later...

Without getting into
theological doctrines of premillennialism, amillennialism &
postmillennialism, or pre-tribulational, mid-tribulational or post-tribulational
positions, (for definitions, click here),
let's just see if we can find any reason why concepts such as the Rapture,
Second Coming, and Judgement are being connected with 2012. It will suffice to
say that there are biblical reasons for expecting a 7-year period of Tribulation
(troubled times), and that either before, after, or halfway through this period,
the Rapture will occur; (when the 144,000 chosen ones will be taken up to
heaven). Judgement Day (usually
taken to be the Second Coming, though some call the Rapture the Second Coming),
will then occur either at the end of the 7-year period, or after a further
thousand year period.

One
New Age position is that in 2012, a dimensional split will occur, that
corresponds to the Rapture. Jack
Van Impe says that the second coming of Christ will occur between 2001 and
2012 and gives some interesting clues as to the reasoning in the summary of his
video, Left Behind.

However, the first part
of the answer can be found at The
Book of Revelation website. It is explained on the pre-sign
page that the re-capturing of Jerusalem by the Israelis in the six-day war
of 1967, is a key date encoded in the words of Jesus, that starts off a
45-year period ending in 2012. The Second Coming of Christ will occur during
this 45-year
period, and it was the prophet Daniel
who revealed it. NB I do not
subscribe to any of the judgemental or right- wing attitudes expressed on these
Literalist biblical sites!

Examination of the Book
of Daniel provides the second part of the
answer. The key verses are the last 3
verses in the last chapter. However, we must first take note of the biblical
code where "a day" represents a year. Earlier in his Book, (Dan.9:
24), Daniel speaks of "seventy weeks of years", representing a
490-year period, (70 x 7 days = 490 days) and giving us a clue about a day-year
code.

In the last 3 verses of
the book of Daniel, it says there is a period of 1290 days from the taking away
of the continual burnt offering until the abomination of desolation is set
up...but "blessed is he who waits and comes to the 1335 days...the end of
days". The difference between these periods is 45 days, and using the
"day =
year" rule, this gives the 45 years between 1967 & 2012.

Part 3 of the answer
lies in Rabbinical lore, and so comes under the next heading:

62. Judaism and 2012
30/6/2002

At the beginning of the Book of Genesis, which is part of the
Jewish Torah, we are told that God created the world in 6 days, and on the 7th
day he rested. At Rosh
Ha'Shanna - Is It The Rapture? we are told the following:

The
Rabbi's taught that there were 7,000 years of time. They divided time into a
6000-year segment followed by the 1,000-year Messianic kingdom. They based this
on Psalm 90:4, which says that to God a thousand years, is as a day. What the
Rabbis taught was that as the week of creation was 7 days, that is seven 24-
hour days, and each day stood for a thousand years with the seventh day as a day
of rest -- the day of the messianic kingdom.

The Jewish Calendar starts with the birth of Adam, and by Bishop
Usher's famous analysis, in which he consulted all the male genealogies in the
old testament (adding given ages of fathers at the birth of their first
son, working back from the zero-point of Christ's birth, on which our Gregorian
calendar is based), he found 4004 BC as Adam's birth date. Thus, we arrive at
autumn 1997 as 6000 years after the birth of Adam (the Jewish New Year - Rosh
Ha'Shanna usually falls between autumn and winter). It seems that Usher made a
3-year discrepancy, since the Byzantium
site says that the birth of Adam was 4000 years before the birth of
Christ, so Gregorian year 2000 should be the Jewish year 6000. However, Jewish
year 5760 started on September 30th 1999, so this means there is a 240-year
discrepancy between the Jewish and Gregorian calendars.NB
If we presume that the difference has something to do with the 360-day year (see
Dan. 7: 25; 12: 7 - time, times & half a time = 3.5 x 360 = 42 months
= 1260 days), then the difference between 360-day year and Julian year of 365.25
days = 5.25 days per year. 240 years x 5.25 days = 1260 days. What does this
mean?

In the 4-part articleRosh
Ha'Shanna - Is It The Rapture? (part
4 is hard to find), the author explains how the year 5760 is kabbalistically
encoded into the phrase "six days" (of creation), thereby implying
that 2000 is the end of the 6000-year period. The article concludes that "some
Rosh Ha'shanna between 1999 and 2012 or shortly thereafter might be the
completion of the 6,000 years of man and the start of the Millennium". The
7 years between Adam & Eve's creation and the picking of the apple from the
Tree of Knowledge must be taken into account, bringing the start of the Day of
the Lord to 2007 AD, and various other calendrical interpretations bring it to
2012.

The
7 Days of Creation are related to the Jewish Menorah, or 7-branched candlestick,
which actually appeared as a crop formation at Barbury Castle,
Wiltshire, UK in 1999!

Rosh Ha'Shanna is the Jewish New Year, and lasts 2 days,
but it is also the start of a 10-day festival called Teshuvah,
"which
means "returning." In the spiritual sense, teshuvah means
returning to the Creator of the universe, who we call HaShem. It means
turning away from the secular, from the worldly way of life and turning back to
His way of life."

This return (as described here),
sounds very Gnostic: The concept of teshuvah
as "return" emphasizes the fundamental spiritual potential of every
person. Chassidic thought teaches that within each of us resides a Divine soul,
a spark of G-d.[4] This infinite G-dly
potential represents the core of our souls, our genuine "I".

In Judaism, there are 3 days that are heralded by a
trumpet. These are Shavuot, (first trump), proclaiming God's betrothal to
Israel; Rosh Ha'Shanna (last trump), New Year and start of the 10-day Teshuvah
or "return"; and Yom Kippur (Great trump), heralding the return of the
Messiah back to earth.

Rosh Ha'Shanna takes on even more significance when we see a
full list of its titles:

1.Teshuvah (return / repentance)

2.Rosh Ha'Shanah (Head of the year, birthday
of the world)

3.Yom Teruah (the day of the awakening
blast/Feast of Trumpets)

4.Yom HaDin (the Day of Judgement)

5.HaMelch (the Coronation of Messiah)

6.Yom HaZikkaron (the Day of Remembrance or
memorial)

7.The time of Jacob's trouble (the birthpangs
of the Messiah)

8.The opening of the gates

9.Kiddushin/Nesu'in (the wedding ceremony)

10.The resurrection of the dead (rapture)

11.The last trump (shofar)

12.Yom Hakeseh (the hidden day)

In the year 2012, Shavuot falls on 27th May;
Rosh Ha'Shanna falls on September 17th/18th; and Yom Kippur falls on 26th
September. The conclusion is that the last trump is synonymous
with Rosh Ha'Shanah when theGates
of Heaven will open and the righteous will enter in rapture, on 17th/18th
September 2012. However, Yom Kippur also has another title: "Closing
of Gates"; the
Gates of Heaven will therefore close on 26th September 2012.

As a chilling
post-script, if we look back to Whats New item 4,
we find that Glen Deen's low-precision orbit model gave Earth impact of Mars'
moon Phobos on SEPTEMBER 18TH 2012! This
is reminiscent of the Bible code prediction (see item
10), although some Bible
Code scholars interpret it as Mars being crumbled by the Earth. However,
there are new developments in the Phobos story:
1; 2;
3; 4;
5; 6
(Glenn
Deen now says if Phobos is missing, it would have happened on July 2 2001,
caused by comet 75P Kohoutek - he doesn't say how that effects his impact
prediction!)

63. More on Tzoltze
ek' (Nibiru)
from Hunbatz Men 30/6/2002

Mayan Elder, Hunbatz Men,
who revealed that the Mayans have known about Tzoltze ek' (Nibiru) - a massive
planet on an elliptical orbit, for many years (see Whats
New item 41), has another
page online, revealing more details. He says that the seventh moon of Nibiru
will activate Kundalini - the serpentine energy that activates the 7 chakras or
power-zones along the spine (if you thought this was an exclusively
Indian/Tibetan teaching, see his book Secrets of Mayan Science/Religion).
Tzoltze ek' will also activate our genetic memories, and all the pyramids on
Earth AND under water, so we are advised to visit them when it appears in the
skies. The planet has a period of 6,500 years, not 3,600, he says, and visits us
4 times every 26,000 year cycle ("the Great Calendar of the Pleiades"
that ends on 21st December 2012) The planet is inhabited by beings who operate
on a higher "mental frequency".

64. The
Sylvia Brown 2003 Error 30/6/2002

This was a headline in
Nexus Magazine (Oct-Nov 2001);

Noted psychic Sylvia
Brown has said that 2003, rather than 2012 is the final year of the Mayan
calendar.

The article containing
this statement can be found online at astrosite.com
, but the source that the article is based on, is a letter, found on the Zetatalk
website (that promotes a re-appearance of Nibiru in 2003), and simply says the
following:

Last summer
I watched a Montel Williams show rerun with a noted California psychic Sylvia
Brown as the guest. It was taped last January. In the midst of giving
predictions for 1997, she mentioned that 2000 AD actually took place six years
ago (1991?). Therefore:

Gregorian

Mayan

1991

2000

1992

2001

1993

2002

1994

2003

1995

2004

1996

2005

1997

2006 (now)

1998

2007

1999

2008

2000

2009

2001

2010

2002

2011

2003

2012 AD

In sum,
2003 AD (Gregorian calendar) translates into the Mayan calendar's 2012 AD.
Remember that the Mayan calendar ends Dec 21(?), 2012, completing a cycle ( or
supposedly signalizing a catastrophic end of the world as we know it).

So, the information
originated in a 1996-97 radio interview with Sylvia Brown, who mentioned
in passing, that 2000 AD took place 6 years previously. Sylvia didn't
receive psychic information that the Mayan calendar was wrong, or even mention
2012 - the rest of the Zetatalk letter is supposition of a Zetatalk
correspondent. What Sylvia probably meant, is that, since theologians and
historians all argue about the actual year of Christ's birth, this means that
our calendar's base-date is off by anything up to 10 years, and therefore, if
any Christians were expecting the Second Coming to occur two thousand years
after Christ's birth, their estimate would be off by a similar amount. One of
the most popular current years for the birth-date is 6 BC, but some authorities
say 9
BC or even 10
BC. If Jesus had been born in 9 BC, then the 2000-year anniversary would
have been in 1991. If this turned
out to be true, and the year we now call 2012 should really be called 2003, that
just would just mean that the Gregorian year that correlates to 13.0.0.0.0 in
the Long Count should also be called 2003, though it would still be the same
year! Likewise, the year favoured by Zetatalk for Nibiru's return, would no
longer be called 2003, but 1994.
(More refs: 9
BC; 10 BC;
10 BC)

SO, THE WHOLE STORY ABOUT
THE MAYAN CALENDAR ENDING IN 2003 AND NOT 2012 IS FALSE!

65. Convergence
3 & Divine Cosmos
30/6/2002

David Wilcock, author of Shift
of the Ages (see Whats New item 27) has
started to upload a brand new online book called Divine
Cosmos, of which the first 8 chapters are now available. The book is a bold
attempt to re-write the current scientific paradigms, using cutting-edge
international scientific research findings. However, it would be best to first
read Convergence III as
an introduction. As I said in Whats new item 27, Wilcock's website, Ascension
2000 states its objective, to scientifically
prove that "a
dimensional shift is to occur on Earth on or before 2012",
and these writings are an essential contribution. They cover aether theory, Zero Point energy, the
amazing work of several Russian scientists, earth changes, solar changes and
changes on other planets in the solar system; tornados and vortexes; plasmatic
phenomena and much more. He is running a seminar series that moves around USA,
and the speakers include John Major Jenkins - see 2012
Events for info., or Wilcock's Time
of Global Shift website.

David Wilcock's The
Ultimate Secret of the Mayan Calendar is a summary of a paper written by
Sergey Smelyakov and Yuri Karpenko
called THE AURIC TIME
SCALE AND THE MAYAN FACTOR: Demography,
Seismicity and History of Great Revelations in the Light of the Solar-Planetary
Synchronism.Sergey Smelyakov is a professor of
mathematics at Kharkov University, (Ukraine, Russia), with an interest in
astrology, and he has found that the Golden Section, or Phi (1.6180339...)
governs the movements of the asteroid belt, and cycles of solar activity, as
well as all the planetary orbits in the solar system, including comets. He has also found that Phi
governs the stock market and population growth, and by applying the same Phi
harmonics to the 13-baktun cycle, he has found a Phi spiral that seems to spiral
in on itself on December 21st 2012 - a kind of time implosion, or "point
of bifurcation", reminiscent of Peter
Russell's White Hole in Time (now called Waking Up In Time - see
item 18).

I read through the
64-page, equation-drenched pdf file, and found that the authors had based their
theory on a start-date of August 6 3113 BC, as given by Jose Arguelles in The
Mayan Factor, when it was actually August 11 3114 BC, as we now know. I
contacted Sergey Smelyakov, wondering whether or not the theory would survive
the news, and was relieved when he replied telling me that "several
numerical conclusions might be slightly changed",
but that the theory was not seriously damaged by the modification. Following
further correspondence, he agreed to write a short summary of the latest version
of his theory, exclusively for 2012: Dire
Gnosis, while we wait for the modified
version of the full paper.

In
the 5th and final part in his series, Laurence talks about "a revolutionary new astrological map that reveals the true
meaning of 22-12-2012, and that serves as a 21st century Book of the Dead,
bringing together elements of the Mayan, Tibetan and
Egyptian books of liberation".

68. Franklin
Timewave = Zyzygyz' Brainwave 31/7/2002

Magic
squares are grids of numbers which are arranged
in rows and columns in a square in such a way that all columns and rows add to
the same number. Traditionally, there is a magic square associated with
each planet - a 3 x 3 square is associated with Saturn; a 4 x 4 square
with Jupiter; 5 x 5 with Mars; 6 x 6 with the Sun; 7 x 7 with Venus; 8 x 8
with Mercury; and 9 x 9 with the Moon (ref.
The View Over Atlantis by John Michell, 1969).

Ben Franklin*, one of the Founding Fathers of the American constitution,
devised a different arrangement of the Mercurial magic square (an 8 x 8 square, consisting of the
numbers from 1 to 64). However, the numbers in the Franklin square add to the same number in so many
ways that the square has become a mathematical legend! (See an
animation here)**.
When you take into
account the fact that the numbers in the 8 x 8 Mercurial square add to 260 - the
number of days in the Mayan sacred calendar, or Tzolkin, and also, the number of
Katuns in the "macroscopic Tzolkin" of the 13-Baktun Long Count cycle
(that terminates in 2012) - then we have the suggestion of a link between the
Franklin 8 x 8 square, the I Ching (an 8 x 8 square of 64 hexagrams), and the
Mayan calendars.

This
connection was discovered and published by Jose Arguelles in his
"Earth Ascending" in 1984, before he knew that Terence McKenna had
used the I Ching to arrive at 2012 as the year in which the
"concrescence" (evolutionary omega point) of the universe would be
achieved (McKenna arrived at his conclusion before knowing about the
2012-termination point of the 13-Baktun cycle - seeitem
17 ).

Enter
Zyzygyz, who
runs the the Time Wave
Zero 2012 discussion group, founded to discuss the implications of Time Wave
Zero. Zyzygyz had been corresponding with Peter Meyer, the man who
produced the software for McKenna's Time Wave Zero, and they had both been
intrigued by the dip into Novelty produced by the Timewave at the time of the
September 11th Twin Towers tragedy in 2001. However, this dip appeared on the
"Huang Ti" version of the wave that Peter Meyer developed as an
alternative to the original King Wen sequence-based wave, following a rumour
that the Huang Ti sequence was earlier than the King Wen. Zyzygyz realized that
the earliest sequence of all was called the Fu Hsi, in which the hexagram
sequence develops in a very logical way, and he persevered until he (and Peter
Meyer) had converted the sequence into a wave, but unfortunately, it turned out
not to be a true Timewave. ***

Then Zyzygyz
had his Brainwave! If the numbers in the Franklin 8 x 8 square were each
replaced with the hexagram of that number, (in the King Wen sequence) then
the Franklin 8 x 8 square could be converted into a Timewave! When Peter had
generated the 384 number-set from Zyzygyz' 64 Franklin-hexagram numbers, they
found that a true Timewave had resulted. The largest level of the wave could
then be mapped against time, and Zyzygyz
noted the following correlations to events in the solar system, with peaks
and troughs on the Franklin wave:

1. The biggest major
'hump' or radical descent into novelty corresponds to ~3.6 billion years ago,
which is the generally
agreed-upon date when life first appeared on earth (the Archean Period).

2. The second major drop corresponds to ~1.6 billion years ago, when the major
forms of multicellular life diverged into animals, plants, and fungi (the
beginning of the Mesoproterozoic).

3. The third major peak occurs at ~550 million years ago, which corresponds
nicely with the 'Cambrian Explosion' which gave rise to most of the major animal
groups living on earth today.

Another peak is seen in this Timewave about 5.5 billion years ago, which
arguably could correspond to the beginnings of the formation of the solar system
(estimates vary), since it troughs out around 4.5 bya.

If Peter Meyer adds
the Franklin wave number set to his computer programme, then the wave's
fractal novelty-mapping properties could be seen in more detail (**** see below). Until then, you
can follow the thread of the discussion from message
1722, seeing particularly message
1763 and message
1793 (from which I have quoted Zyzygyz above). In the FILES
section of Time Wave Zero 2012, you will find illustrations of many of the
sequences and timewaves discussed here (you must be
a member to access the Files page, but membership is free, so... no problem!)

* As a
Founding Father, Ben Franklin was almost certainly a Mason and so may have been
privy to Mayan calendrical information - see item 44** Thanks to Zyzygyz for this great link***It does not
achieve "closure", ie approach the zero point, since the last 2 of the
384 numbers (that form the generated number-set that is the basis of the wave),
are not zeros.

Keith
Hunter has recently added another essay to the one already posted online,
( Earth
Pole Shift 2012 13.0.0.0.0.UNAVAILABLE
(author's theory changed) ...- which is already listed
on the 2012 Links page). The new article is called Sacred
Geometry, the Earth, & the Mayan Calendar 'End-Date' of 2012 (now
re-written). In the former article,Keith Hunter theorised
that a pole shift is coming that will restore the earth's
360-day rotation period, and eventually restore it to its
original spherical state, raising the consciousness of
mankind. Keith wrote to ask for my opinion on his new
article, which he summed up as follows,

The End-date of the
Mayan Calendar will coincide with the earth possessing an Obliquity of the
Ecliptic of 1406.25 minutes of Arc (23.4375 degrees), and that this will occur
in 2012, upon the Winter Solstice of 21st December. At present the earth's axis
is 1406.333345 minutes of arc (2003AD), but it is decreasing by approximately
0.4704'' seconds of arc each year, and in 2012 it will be 1406.25.

Sounds pretty
amazing, doesn't it? Well, I read the new article, and wrote back to Keith,
agreeing with some of the points he had made. However, I also found a couple of
faults that effectively demolish the whole theory! ( You probably think I'm
getting pretty good at theory demolition, what with Giza-Genesis
and The Orion Prophecy and then Auric
Time Scale Mach 1, but...oh well...) Anyway, my
reply failed to prompt any further correspondence, (UPDATE:
he has just contacted me, 14 months later; see below)
so here are the relevant
excerpts from it, so you can tell me if you disagree.

...you say that when the the earth was a
perfect sphere, with a circular orbit & a 360-day year, it must have
CEASED ALL ROTATION ON ITS AXIS. If it had ceased all rotation on its axis, then
how could it have had a 360-day year, since it is the very rotation of the
planet that governs days and nights? There would have been NO days or nights
- half the Earth would have remained facing the sun, while the other half
remained in darkness, so how could 360 days have been calculated?

The second point is that if the earth's
equatorial diameter, when divided by the polar diameter will equal 1.0040625;
and if in 2012 the obliquity of the ecliptic will be 1406.25 minutes of arc,
that still doesn't mean there is a relationship between these numbers because
moving the decimal place does not turn one of these numbers into the other -
i.e. they are not harmonics of each other. 1.0040625 and 100406.25 have a
harmonic relationship, as do 1406.25 and 0.00140625, but inserting 2 zeros
between whole numbers destroys that harmonic.

Click on the links above to read Keith's
essays, but feel free to tell me if you disagree with me...

UPDATE:
Keith has now re-written the essay, including changes to the first paragraph I
mentioned. He admits that the numbers do not have a harmonic relationship, but
says, "it
is not important that they are not harmonics. They are obviously related."However, he is currently re-working the
theory, "... the reason I wish to thank
you is that, due to your letter, I have just this very night made a critical
breakthrough in my work..." to be
continued...

70. Damaeus,
Salvia &
2012
31/7/2002

Following on
from Charlie Sabatino's letter concerning Salvia divinorum, (see Whats
New 46), a person by the web-name of Damaeus replied, with Salvia-inspired
precognitive insights about 2012, posting his reply at the 2012-Theories
discussion group. Here is Damaeus' reply (posted
12 May 2002):

Concerning salvia
divinorum and 2012, I gather from my experiences with salvia that none of us
will ever see the destruction of the earth. We will hear the calling
before it ever happens and our consciousness/spirit/soul will simply float away,
leaving our physical bodies to be destroyed with the worldwide earthquakes or
whatever other disasters nature has in store.

This awakening process will indeed feel like a "waking up process".
One might wonder why we can't do it now, permanently, even with the use of
psychoactive or psychedelic herbs. I think it's because these alignments
aren't right yet. We can't ascend because it just isn't time yet. I think
when the time comes, we will awaken and all will seem so easy and natural that
we won't even care that we were unable to do it before.

All we can really do now is know these things intellectually, and somewhat in
practice through the use of salvia divinorum. Luckily I have enough to
last me through the next ten years, should it ever become illegal. Salvia
is not an herb I'm driven to use on a daily basis. In fact, I haven't used
any of it in at least a couple of months. But I still have 110 grams of
it.

Anyway, I get the impression that all the preparation we're going through is all
for naught. I think the beer drinking, womanizing party animals are going
to awaken just like everyone else, though I do suppose that if one has some
background study in these issues, when the event happens it might make a little
more sense, or the transition might be a little smoother. I figure the
calling might intensify between now and 2012, so that by the time 2012 arrives,
the world will be at peace and people will be expecting it. My roommate
has always been fond of saying that when we finally have world peace, it will be
the end of the world. Plus, I think I've seen Biblical references to the
idea that those who have eyes to see and ears to hear will be able to sense the
"coming of the Lord". The only wrench in the gears is the part
that says nobody knows the hour or the day, but then who says the Bible is in
fallible? I certainly don't.

I would have posted
this sooner, but Damaeus closed with a comment; "I
wonder if a rapture or Jesus fits into the Mayan 2012 timeline",
which inspired the research for Whats New 61 and 62.

Thanks to
Damaeus

71. Reminder:
Judgment Day September 22 2002 ? 31/8/02

In Whats
New item 21, Weidner and Bridges found, in their book, A Monument to the End
of Time, that Autumn (Fall) Equinox 2002 would be the Day of Judgment, according
to the Cyclic Cross at Hendaye in France. The Cross is is covered in
alchemically coded inscriptions that indicate that September 22 2002 may
bring the first half of a
"double catastrophe". The authors noted the similarity to Paul La
Violette's Galactic Superwave theory (item 48),
which also predicted a double-catastrophe, the first of whose effects would be "electromagnetic
shifts...crustal torque, pole shifts, tidal waves and high winds".
The inference of both theories is that the second catastrophe would be in 2012.

On page 172,
the authors say,

The Cross at
Hendaye, a true monument to the end of time, demonstrates how to calculate the
traditional date of the Day of Judgment. It points to a very specific date,
September 22, 2002 and a specific place, the paws of the Sphinx on the Giza
plateau. Interestingly enough, the Great Pyramid, another mysterious monument at
Giza, is thought to contain a prophetic design in its passages and Grand Gallery
that ends on September 17 2001. This is exactly one year and 5 days before the
Hendaye date, the time period required to prepare for the transition from
Pharaoh to a living star in Orion according to the Pyramid texts".

By amazing
"coincidence", Paul Wright has today brought my attention to a
post on Robert Bauval's website - posted today (August 27th 2002), that
brings attention to the fact that the National
Geographic Channel are planning a LIVE worldwide broadcast on September
17th 2002 from inside the Great Pyramid,
with Zahi Hawass, called "Secret
Chambers Revealed", exploring the
shaft that leads to the sealed room on the "Sirius shaft". This is
exactly 1 year after the pyramid prophecy ends, and 5 days before the Hendaye
prophecy.

Rush Allen
has prepared a special essay on the subject for 2012:
Dire Gnosis, which finds astrological and
mythological confirmation: Click
here to read it.

This is a new page
using crop formations to illustrate various aspects of the 2012 phenomenon (if
you think crop circles are all man-made, check out BLT
Research's website which is now online at last!) It links to all previous
articles on 2012: Dire Gnosis that
connect 2012 with crop formations.

Galactic
Alignment: John Major Jenkins' follow-up book to his Maya Cosmogenesis
2012 has just been published. The book is called Galactic
Alignment - The Transformation of consciousness According to Mayan, Egyptian
& Vedic Traditions, and I'm halfway through it & very much recommend
it. More next month...meanwhile, why not read
Willard Van de Bogart's review.

74.
Islam and
2012
31/8/02

NB: I do not subscribe to
any Islamic beliefs or sympathise with any fanatical or tyrannical attitudes.

Like Judaism and
Christianity, Islam also expects "the last days" and a Day of
Judgment. They have mala'ika
(angels) including Mikail (Michael)
and Jibril (Gabriel). There is also an evil
jiin called Shaytan. At
death,the ruh, or spirit, leaves the body and waits in barzakh(purgatory), and returns to the body on Yawm al-
Ba'th, the day of
Rising from the grave. The destination is then Jinnah(the Garden) - for
Muslims only - or Nar -
(the Fire). They also expect an
"antichrist" figure, called Dajjal,
which means deceiver, andbefore the Last Day, Jesus (who is seen as a prophet), will re-appear and
kill the Dajjal. Most Muslim sources regard prediction and prophecy
as a bad idea, (like the Bible, theQur'an gives signs, but says only God
(Allah) knows
sa' "the Hour").
However, some have stuck their necks out. According to John Whalen,
who is quoted
all over the net;

...several Sufi sects have already
declared 2076 as the Year of the Haj (end day) because it will coincide with the
year 1500 in the Islamic Calendar. An article by Abdal Hakim Murad, "Islam
and the New Millennium," confirmed this, quoting Imam al-Suyuti, the
greatest scholar of medieval Egypt. At first, al-Suyuti believed the end of the
world would occur in the year 1000 of the Islamic Calendar. He later changed his
prediction to 1500 of the Islamic Calendar.

However, at islaam.com,
author of The Day of Wrath, Safar Ibn
`Abd Al-Rahman Al-Hawali says that he agrees with the
Christian date interpretation, that I have already quoted above, at Whats New
item 61 - Christianity/The Rapture and 2012. Speaking of
Jerusalem, he says;

When Daniel specified the period between its
distress and relief, between the era of anguish and the era of blessing, he put
it as forty-five years! We have already seen that he specified the time of the
establishment of the abomination of desolation as the year 1967, which is what
in fact occurred. Therefore, the end –or the beginning of the end- will be
1967 + 45 = 2012, or in lunar years 1387 + 45 = 1433.

I recently bought some
Masonic documents at a boot sale, and discovered that they were dated in a
Masonic calendar of "Anno Lucis", or "Year of Light". Anno
Lucis 5950, the year in which one of the documents was produced, is also given
as the Gregorian date, AD 1950. Thus, the Gregorian year AD 2000 would equate to
AL 6000 in the Masonic calendar. So, the Masonic calendar equates to the
"corrected" version of the Hebrew calendar, (see Whats
New item 62). The capping of the Great Pyramid, that was planned for New
Years Eve 1999, (but was cancelled by the Egyptian authorities), can now be seen
as a symbol of the completion of Man the microcosm, or as the descent of the New
Jerusalem; the expected end of the Sixth Day of Creation, and the start of the
Seventh Day, or Golden Age (see The Eye in The Pyramid).

Further investigation showed
that not all Masonic Brotherhoods use the Anno Lucis system. The Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite, for example, use "Anno Mundi", or the
"Year of the World", which equates to the current Hebrew calendar, and
is 240 years behind ours. The Jewish Encyclopedia agrees on that this
discrepancy is due to an error, and their year 6000 should coincide with
our year 2000 (2000 AD + 4000 BC = 6000) (see torahvoice).
This still leaves the 12-year discrepancy between the Transition of Ages marked
by the Judaeo-Christian calendar and that marked by the Mayan Long Count calendar.

The
Ethiopian calendar, which originated from the Coptic Egyptian calendar, puts the
Creation date at 5500 BC. However, they put the birth of Christ in the Gregorian
year 7 AD. Since the Ethiopian calendar (like the Gregorian), uses the birth of
Christ as a base line, this means that the Ethiopian year 2000 will start on the
Gregorian date, September 12th 2007 AD (this is the start
of Coptic year 1724). Thus, although the Creation date is linked to
Egyptian ideas, the Age-Transition point signified by the 2000th year after the
birth of Christ, is over 7 years closer to the Mayan "end-point" than
that of the Gregorian calendar. Exodus
2006 has a new page with more information.

The
Ethiopian year starts on September 11th, except during leap years, (which occur
when the Ethiopian year number is the same as any Gregorian leap-year number),
when it starts on September 12th. So, September 11th 2012 will be the start of Ethiopian
year 2005. The first month in the Coptic year, which also starts on
September 11th, is called Tout - the Egyptian god Thoth, god of
calendrical cycles, whose sacred number was 52.

Many decades ago, Grandmother was designated to preserve
the Wolf Clan teachings by her maternal grandfather, Moses Shongo, the last of
the traditional Seneca medicine men. Seneca society's Wolf Clan Teaching Lodge
teaches the wisdom, prophecy, and philosophy of earth history, Grandmother
Twylah Nitsch is also the co-author of Other Council Fires Were Here Before
Ours: A Native American Creation Story as Retold by a Seneca Elder and Her
Granddaughter.

The
Seneca Grandfather Moses Shongo (died ca. 1925)
foresaw a 25-year period of purification, lasting until the year 2012 or so, during which the Earth will purge itself.

So,
here we have a native prophecy concerning not only 2012, but a 25-year period of
purification preceding 2012, and that means that the year 1987 was flagged long
before the late Tony Shearer, (in 1969 / 1970) told Jose Arguelles that August 16-17
1987 would be the end of the Ninth Hell cycle (in the "prophecy of Thirteen
Heavens and Nine Hells"). This is the time that Arguelles called
"Harmonic Convergence".
This also has a bearing on the Kalachakra
prophecy (see Whats New item 28).

I
hope to have more on this next month...

78.
Cherokee Calendar Wheels
30/9/02

Dan
Troxell, who is of Chickamauga Cherokee blood, has a new website called Mysteries
of Trox. On the site, he tells of the Cherokee Calendar, and how it was
inspired by the 52 scales around the mouth of the rattlesnake, and measures
"TIME UNTIME".

He
describes a system of interlocking wheels, and says sometimes the wheels were
made from stone, and sometimes the wheels were formed on the ground, using
pebbles. These are often mistaken for Medicine Wheels. They represent the
movement of "the stars, the heavens
and the universe". On the rings are
"glyphs and colors",
the alignments of which give various meanings.

There
are 6 rings - 3 visible (representing heavens) and 3 invisible (representing
universe). There is a page still to come, in the series, so we cannot
reconstruct the device yet, (UPDATE:
it will may look a
bit like this animation) but one of the 3 visible wheels has 22 sections,
each representing 52 years. The 22 sections are divided into 2 parts; the first
13 are years of Light and the following 9 are years of Darkness. The whole cycle
is thus 1144 years, and is called a "World",
consisting of 676 years of Light (13 x 52) and 468 years of Darkness (9 x 52).
There is a transitional period from Light to Darkness and vice versa, called a
"Crossing".
These Crossing points vary from 0 to 25 years, and are a collective struggle
comparable to the birth and death transitions of the individual.

Here
again, we have confirmation of a 25-year transitional period starting in 1987,
since Dan says that "the Cherokee
calendar ends in 2012".

Incredibly,
Dan says the Cherokee name for the Great
Spirit Creator is Yahowah!
This seems to back up the claim of the Mormons, that one of the Lost 10 Tribes
of Israel once lived in America. In fact, Tony
Shearer (mentioned in the item above) thought that the 22 golden plates
found by Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, had come from Palenque, and
that Mormon was Lord Pacal of Palenque! According
to Shearer, (Lord of the Dawn 1971), Quetzalcoatl left the prophecy of the 13
Heavens & 9 Hells when he departed. He would return at the end of the 13
Heavens, then the 9 hells would start. The Aztecs welcomed Cortez as
Quetzalcoatl (also bearded & white-skinned), when he arrived in ships
bearing the sign of Quetzalcoatl - the Cross of 4 directions. That was 1519, and
9 Hells of 52 years later, gave 16/17 August 1987, according to Shearer, but Jenkins
points out that this was an error of over 100 days. See
special page on Shearer's calculation.

I
have finished reading John Major Jenkins' latest book, Galactic
Alignment, and found it very
thought-provoking, to say the least.

Anyone
who has read Hamlet's Mill,
knows that knowledge of the precession of the equinoxes goes back into the mists
of time, and has been encoded into mythology worldwide. Jenkins shows that, more
than this, the ancients knew that there are certain times during the cycle of
precession, when the earth-sun-galaxy relationship allows the influx of some
kind of energy that triggers a transformational leap in mankind. There are 2
crossing points of the Galactic meridian, (centre-line of the Milky Way), and
the ecliptic (path of sun and planets across the sky), or equally, the zodiac
which lies behind the ecliptic. These crossing-points were known as
"Gates" by the ancients. These celestial gates were described by
Macrobius as the gates of Capricorn and Cancer, and were seen as doorways
through which the soul descends to be reborn on earth and ascends following
physical death.

In
Joscelyn Godwin's book, Mystery Religions,
the gate of reincarnation is called the Silver Gate, while the gate of ascension
is called the Golden Gate, but he says that the Silver Gate is the way of
reincarnation, while the Golden Gate is the Way of the Gods and leads "beyond
the circle of Necessity, ie to release from the round of birth and death. These
are the two routes from which the soul can exit from the world at death, and the
Capricorn gate is the one through which the gods descend to earth."

It
is clear from both Hamlet's Mill
and from Jenkins' Galactic Alignment,
that these gates don't actually lie in Cancer and Capricorn, but the
neighbouring constellations of Gemini and Sagittarius. The Golden Gate lies at
Galactic Center in Sagittarius, and the Silver Gate lies at Galactic Anti-Center
in Gemini (see items 47 and 48).
Following the work of Oliver Reiser, Jenkins makes a convincing case that the
alignment of the Solstice Sun with the Galactic meridian, (close to Galactic
center) which is flagged by the end of the 13-Baktun Cycle in 2012, marks the
time-window when the divine influences descend;

"Precession
changes our angular orientation to the larger magnetic field of the galaxy in
which we are embedded. during regularly occurring eras in the precessional
cycle, as indicated by the solstice-galaxy alignments (probably the
equinox-galaxy alignments, too), the earth's protective magnetic shield becomes
unstable and oscillates. Without a complete field reversal being required, this
oscillation allows greater amounts of mutational rays to strike the
surface of the earth. While this may result in mutations and a greater chance
for "evolution", of greater significance is the possible
transformative effect on human consciousness during alignment eras, when human
beings are exposed to higher doses of high-frequency radiation."

Jenkins
refers to Swami Sri Yukteswar's study of the Vedic Yuga system, (that may have
originated as long ago as 7000 BC), and shows how that system is also flagging
the galactic alignment. He concludes that there is a Galactic Chakra system,
with the base chakra at Galactic Center, and the crown chakra in the direction
of the Galactic Anti-center. Earth is at the level of the fifth (throat) chakra,
evolving towards the sixth (ajna or third eye):

"The
as yet unspoken message in this survey is that the galactic alignment opens a
channel for the kundalini shakti to flow through the earth, cleanse (it)
us, and excite it (us) into a higher level of being."

Like
Hamlet's Mill, Galactic Alignment will
probably inspire other researchers to dig further into the shadows illuminated
by the book. This book has started connecting up many of the threads mentioned
on this site, and has brought into sharp focus, the "underground
stream" of knowledge encoded into
virtually every religion you can think of...